What fanasy/sci fi book series would you like seen made into a movie/mini series

[Bladicus]

With all the what if threads going on I thought I would put up one of my own.

Post what series you would like to see made into a Movie or mini series. Also include prefered casting choices for characters and a director.

Personally its a tough decision to make but I would really like to see The Dragonlance Chronicles series made into a trilogy. For those that have not read the chronicles (if you are a fantasy reader and have not read them SHAME on you), I have always seen it as a modern day LoTR with more action and less background development.

Director: Peter Jackson

Cast: Caramon : Kevin Sorbo, Raistlin : (tough choice) Jude Law
Tanis : Russel Crowe Tika : not sure of her name was in the Devils Advocate red curly hair. Flint : Actor that played Gimli would be great. Tasslehoff : either cgi like Watto in PM. or some young child maybe even a female. Goldmoon : Charlize Theron or Naomi Watts Riverwind : unknown talk dark handsome type.

Kitara, Sturm, Laurana, and all the others I have not decided yet. Hat do ya'll think ?

[Josh]

The Dragonriders of Pern. Would be brilliant as a series actually. There was talk of a cartoon series being done with it... but whatever happened to it I don't know.

Ideally a big budget movie series would be best though.

Then a prequel based on the origins book "Dragonsdawn". Brilliant.

[Matt]

Hmm... instead of all movies, I would like to see some long mini series or short run tv shows of certain books.

For example, a Star Wars one...maybe the Thrawn series

I actually think a Harry Potter tv show would be great.

I'm not sure of any others but a

TV show that is more informational than exciting could be about the Tolkien world.

[Josh]

The problem with that is that any time you put anything on TV the quality instantly drops... unless you get it on HBO or something like that.

Which is probably why Sir Ian proposed a Hobbit series on HBO to begin with.

You pitch something like that and you NEVER know what type of crap it will turn into. Granted, it could turn into crap as a movie as well, but the chances are higher on television that it will be botched and/or underfunded.

[Matt]

Yeah, it couldn't be on broadcast tv because they would cancel it before it ran two episodes. Put it on HBO or A&E, or Discover. Only way it would be good.

[Josh]

Discovery????

::Pictures herds of water buffalo rampaging through Thrawn's Star Destroyer::

[Matt]

no the Tolkien thing would be great on Discovery.

Thrawn would have to be on HBO

[Josh]

I guess I don't watch Discovery enough. Wouldn't they have to work a digitally recreated Jock Custeau into The Hobbit? Maybe they take a side track to the Grey Havens to go on a scuba diving exploration with him.

[Matt]

Discovery has some of the absolute BEST specials. THEY CGI created several awesome Walk with Dinosaurs specials.

Also they just had an awesome special about the great pyramid. That channel is awesome.

[Arctic]

Bladicus, excellent topic! :)

maybe national geographic would be better since they've already done one LOTR documentary. (now i haven't watched the docu so maybe they didn't do such a good job with it, and perhaps this wouldn't be such a great idea in that case. also i don't have cable and i can't remember if Nat Geog has it's own channel. i seem to recall that they did at some point though.)

as for a sci/fi fantasy book i'd want turned into a movie/series...i think LeGuin's Wizard of Earthsea series would be a good tv series. Also there's this other fantasy series, Song of the Lioness, that I've loved since i was a little girl. I've always wanted to see it made as a movie, though I don't think it will ever get that far.

[Josh]

Also, there is always the Chronicles of Narnia... which has actually already been done as a pretty good mini-series a long time ago, but I'd still LOVE to see it as a series of films.

Very well suited for it to, much more than something like LOTR which has been very difficult to translate to the big screen.

[Evil Dead Junkie]

I'd Love His Dark Materials with a few conditions.

1. Its Three Movies
2. They don't puss out on Religion.
3. They don't Puss out on the Violence
4. They DON'T PUSS OUT ON THE ****ING ENDING!!!

[Arctic]

evil dead, you will get your wish, and a radio show too.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2538003.stmCourted controversy. Tuesday, 3 December, 2002
And Hollywood has also fallen for the Oxford- based writer's books; New Line, the studio that is producing Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings movies, has optioned Northern Lights.

The movie is being scripted by playwright Tom Stoppard.

Pullman's books have courted controversy from some religious circles because of the way they parody Christian religions.

The Catholic Herald newspaper called the books "the stuff of nightmares".

There has also been opposition amongst the religious right in the US. But it has not stopped Pullman's books selling over three million copies in America.

i'd love to see another remake of narnia too, as long as it's not poorly done live action again.

[Bladicus]

My elementary teacher decided to show us the live action Chronicles of narnia before we actually started reading the books. That evil piece of telelvision almost made me not read those wonderful books. Bleh some things are better left alone.

[Evil Dead Junkie]

I just hope they don't make It a Happy Ending. Its note perfect:yuck

[Col. Kurtz]

The Thrawn series would make for an interesting movie. Pellaeon was cool. :D

[MartyRotten]

I think maybe Tim Burton or Terry Gilliam could do a series based on Michael Moorcock's DANCERS AT THE END OF TIME or THE CORNELIUS CHRONICLES (The FINAL PROGRAMME was made into a movie during the Sixties but I heard it wasn't that great, I'd like to see it though. ANybody know where it is on video?) I'd also love to see some movies made of the ELRIC OF MELNIBONE' books.

I'd also like to see one based on THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY series. (Actually I think that might be in the works.)

CHRONICLES OF NARNIA would be a good series for children. (From ANYBODY but Disney!)

Orson Scott Card's ALVIN MAKER series (SEVENTH SON, RED PROPHET and PRENTCE ALVIN) would make some really good movies too.

And I'd like to see some GOOD movies made from TARZAN and CONAN. (before you point out the abominations from Ah-nold and Disney please note that I said GOOD movies.)

[Doom]

American Gods: Movie
Neverwhere: Movie, maybe branch off into a tv series
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Movie's

I forget the name of it, but Lloyd Alexander did a good series that I read when I was younger. It kicked ass and would work as an epic movie trilogy/mini series.

Narnia is a good idea.

[Evil Dead Junkie]

Prydain Chronicles, too late it was already bastardized in by Disney in the Black Cauldron, which kind of slapped the first three books together at random....

BASTARDIZED!!!

[MartyRotten]

Yeah well Disney can't do anything right. Look how they messed up Tarzan.

[Evil Dead Junkie]

American Gods would make a good movie, but I would much rather see Good Omens. Man Johnny Depp and Robin Williams would have been PERFECT

[MRPween]

Neverwhere was a TV series.

I would love to see some of terry pratchetts stuff done really well on TV- 'Small Gods' would be great. So would 'Guards Guards'

[Evil Dead Junkie]

Terry Pratchet:D

Although he is so singular any attempt to adapt him would end in disaster.

[MRPween]

I suspect he would be heavily involved!

[Evil Dead Junkie]

Well think of footnotes for example. I can't imagine a Terry Pratchet Book without footnotes. How would you translate footnotes.

[Arctic]

i think it could work, they'd just have to get the info from the footnotes into the story some other way. it'd change the way the story was told for sure, but i think it's possible to do it and still keep the main concept intact. voiceovers, flashbacks, and historical introductions come to mind. also it's often just in the presentation of things on screen. sometimes all it takes is showing the audience a thing in a certain way for them to grasp what's going on. if that makes sense.

[MRPween]

In the hitch hikers guide series, the foot notes were read by 'the guide' as sort of intermissions - I guess you could have a narrator do that sort of thing... I would probably use 'the death of rats' and 'the raven'

[Bladicus]

Its been years since I have read a Pratchett book, but I think if they did the foot notes as a inner monologue as in The Wonder Years it may work.

[7therror]

Bladicus, your choice for Tanis is wrong. I think Brad Pitt and no Kevin Sorbo ever. Raistlin has to be a skinny frail person. I was thinking Crispin Glover, but his voice is wrong.

All the other characters would be open for debate though.

[Bladicus]

Look at Jude Law in Road to Perdition. I definetly think he can play Raistlin. Robes hide alot of body mass if needed though actors have been known to slim down for roles look at Hanks in Castaway.
I could see Pitt as Tanis he definetly has the physique.Not sure if he could pull of the quiet commander role though.

I still see Kevin Sorbo as Caramon the oly thing that holds him back is his age. Who would you cast in his place ? I also can not seem to settle on a actor or actress to Play Sturm and Lauranna (sp). Who do you think?

I think Russell Crowe would make a better Arakais (sp) the Dragon Highlord commander. Then Tanis as I originally suggested.

Who would you cast as Fizban?

I just finished reading the Legends series again so my casting visions are kicking again.

[masterthes]

I'd love to see Wheel of Time series. I'd also love to see King's The Dark Tower series.

[7therror]

Sturm has to look older than Tanis so I thought of some choices: Viggo Mortensen, Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, or Edward Burns.

Laurana: I would like to stay away from Liv Tyler as a choice. How about Anna Paquin or Lacey Chabret?

Fizban: I could see Sean Connery pulling this off.


I'm sure I'll think of more choices.

[JAD]

I'd just like to get my old stuff published. I'd love to find a program that could tranlate the floppies I used in a Brother word processer into something WinME could read.:(

[Bladicus]

I like Dennis Quaid as Sturm could work well. For Lauranna it would almost have to be an unknown. Every time I think of Lauranna I think of a haunting beauty very close to perfection as she is only one of 2 mortals that Raistlin eyes do not show as decaying and dying.

[Evil Dead Junkie]

Originally posted by masterthes
I'd love to see Wheel of Time series. I'd also love to see King's The Dark Tower series.

Russel Crowe would be a GREAT Roland.